TypeError: replace() argument 2 must be str, not int

Question

I am trying to scrape for Tweets using Twint. The goal is to get tweets based on a keyword and print them according to the custom format provided by me. While setting up the twint configurations to scrape , I faced the following error

<ipython-input-19-dc1bb332d2a2> in <module>
      5 c.Limit = 1
      6 c.Pandas = True
----> 7 twint.run.Search(c)

14 frames
/content/twint/twint/format.py in Tweet(config, t)
     21         output = output.replace("{hashtags}", ",".join(t.hashtags))
     22         output = output.replace("{cashtags}", ",".join(t.cashtags))
---> 23         output = output.replace("{replies}", t.replies_count)
     24         output = output.replace("{retweets}", t.retweets_count)
     25         output = output.replace("{likes}", t.likes_count)

TypeError: replace() argument 2 must be str, not int

The code I am trying is :

# Set up TWINT config
c = twint.Config()
import nest_asyncio
nest_asyncio.apply()
c.Search = "football"
# Custom output format

c.Format = "Username: {username} |  Tweet: {tweet}"
c.Limit = 1
c.Pandas = True
twint.run.Search(c)

I checked the format.py and the replace() function config looks like this

def Tweet(config, t):
    if config.Format:
        logme.debug(__name__+':Tweet:Format')
        output = config.Format.replace("{id}", t.id_str)
        output = output.replace("{conversation_id}", t.conversation_id)
        output = output.replace("{date}", t.datestamp)
        output = output.replace("{time}", t.timestamp)
        output = output.replace("{user_id}", t.user_id_str)
        output = output.replace("{username}", t.username)
        output = output.replace("{name}", t.name)
        output = output.replace("{place}", t.place)
        output = output.replace("{timezone}", t.timezone)
        output = output.replace("{urls}", ",".join(t.urls))
        output = output.replace("{photos}", ",".join(t.photos))
        output = output.replace("{video}", str(t.video))
        output = output.replace("{thumbnail}", t.thumbnail)
        output = output.replace("{tweet}", t.tweet)
        output = output.replace("{language}", t.lang)
        output = output.replace("{hashtags}", ",".join(t.hashtags))
        output = output.replace("{cashtags}", ",".join(t.cashtags))
        output = output.replace("{replies}", t.replies_count)
        output = output.replace("{retweets}", t.retweets_count)
        output = output.replace("{likes}", t.likes_count)
        output = output.replace("{link}", t.link)
        output = output.replace("{is_retweet}", str(t.retweet))
        output = output.replace("{user_rt_id}", str(t.user_rt_id))
        output = output.replace("{quote_url}", t.quote_url)
        output = output.replace("{near}", t.near)
        output = output.replace("{geo}", t.geo)
        output = output.replace("{mentions}", ",".join(t.mentions))
        output = output.replace("{translate}", t.translate)
        output = output.replace("{trans_src}", t.trans_src)
        output = output.replace("{trans_dest}", t.trans_dest)
    else:
        logme.debug(__name__+':Tweet:notFormat')
        output = f"{t.id_str} {t.datestamp} {t.timestamp} {t.timezone}

If there is anything anyone could help me with that would be great. If the question needs to be rewritten, also please let me know, not very good at forming questions.

FYI it's __scrape__ (and __scraping__, __scraped__, __scraper__) not scrap. 'To scrap' means to throw away like rubbish :-( — DisappointedByUnaccountableMod, Aug 18 '21 at 16:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '21 at 19:19

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The second parameter needs to be a str, not an int.

Use this instead:

output = output.replace("{replies}", str(t.replies_count))

answered Aug 17 '21 at 19:19

quamrana

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Thank you but a new problem arose `TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, dict found` for this line of code `output = output.replace("{mentions}", "," .join(t.mentions))` – TheUnluckyVJ Aug 17 '21 at 19:26
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Perhaps you could search stackoverflow to see if anyone has done that before. – quamrana Aug 17 '21 at 19:28

TypeError: replace() argument 2 must be str, not int

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